Skater Quotes

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach. (Rebecca Miller)
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. View quote
Brian Boitano
When it comes down to competition, its not always about the best skater, its about who skates the best in that competition. View quote
Gracie Gold
The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater. View quote
Liev Schreiber
I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music. View quote
Oksana Baiul
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. View quote
Oksana Baiul
I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. View quote
Scott Hamilton
I have never been the stereotypical figure skater. View quote
Tonya Harding
I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently. View quote
Sylvia Plath
I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work. View quote
Wayne Gretzky
He was a boy, she was girl. Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk; she did ballet. What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well. All of her friends stuck up their nose, they had a problem with his baggy clothes. He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space. She needed to come back down to Earth! (Avril Lavigne)
He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth. View quote
Avril Lavigne
That guy right there is the best damn roller skater ever. Maybe even in the whole town. View quote
Chris Pontius
It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. View quote
Vera Wang
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror. View quote
Vera Wang
I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle. View quote
Apolo Ohno
I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do. View quote
Ariel Rechtshaid
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels. View quote
D. B. Sweeney
Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again. View quote
Dorothy Hamill
Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. View quote
Katarina Witt
Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn. (Robin Cousins)
I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart. View quote
Shani Davis
I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music. View quote
Sarah Hughes
Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway. View quote
Liza Minnelli
One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome. View quote
Lil Wayne